The NYPD has launched an investigation into a possible hate crime in which a Professor’s office in the Columbia University was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti and hateful words.

When she entered her office, she was horrified as she saw the two swastikas spray-painted in red. Midlarsky has worked at the university’s Teachers College for 28 years. She immediately reported the incident to security and was brought home in a van.

Jewish Professor Elizabeth Midlarsky has published various articles related to the Holocaust. She was deeply disturbed on sighting the signs on the walls of her office.The college has condemned the act. The community is outraged and horrified by this act of aggression and use of this vile anti-Semitic symbol against a valued member of their community. Members of the college administration are working with the police to find the perpetrator.The incident was reported on Wednesday. This is not the first time when Professor Midlarsky has been targeted for her religious affiliation. A similar incident occurred in 2007. Midlarsky told CNN she had begun to receive hate mail both by letter and email in 2007, which she believed was connected to her lifetime of work as a Jewish activist. She then received a call from the Teachers College not to come in as her office had been vandalized.The professor points toward an increase in anti-Semitism in recent years. The professor talks about her 13-year-old grandson’s bar mitzvah, held on the same day as the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 people. The professor feels extremely vulnerable.

CHALLENGE

The rise of cosmopolitanism has led to an increase in the incidence of hate crimes. Because several religions, communities, and nationalities live in close proximity of each other; conflict amongst them is more common than ever.

It has been observed that such hate-crimes are harbingers of large-scale terror attacks. It is in the best interest of counter-terrorism agencies to prevent such untoward incidents.

After the 9/11 attacks, though, the United States focused on terrorism almost exclusively as a problem related to jihadis. Much less attention was paid to far-right violence, such as that committed by neo-Nazis, sovereign citizens, anti-immigrant groups, and others.

However, it is extremely difficult to screen and identify people who are likely to commit such crimes. The people who harbor racist sentiments blend in with the crowd. They are known by society and are not easily discernable from the others.

Hate crimes fall in the Terrorism bucket. Small incidents of hate crime are a precursor to terror events because the mentality of the perpetrators in both kinds of incidents is fairly common. Hate crimes can be called ‘gateway-crimes’ into the world of terror.

WHY ICOGNATIVE?

Counter Terrorism agencies strive to not only solve, but also to pre-empt attacks which threaten humanity. The agencies can be immensely empowered using a technology which can not only efficiently screen suspects, but also make use of the knowledge that a suspect possesses to uncover details about their criminal organisation, also their rank and level of involvement in a particular crime.

Conventional methods like DNA, Fingerprinting, and polygraph tests are limited in comparison to a revolutionary technology called iCognative. This technology is provided only by Brainwave Science. iCognative can help investigative agencies to quickly and accurately screen suspects for possession of information that links them to a specific crime, an extremist ideology or a criminal organisation, etc. Brainwave Science aims to eliminate torture and inhumane interrogation through iCognative.

iCognative can find out if the human brain has been exposed to a sight, sensation, experience or concept. The investigators feed images, words and phrases related to the gathered evidence into the iCognative system. These are displayed to the suspect on a computer screen. A proprietary wireless headset records and transmits the responses of the suspect’s brain to the computer system. Here the responses are analysed and the system reports whether the subject’s brain has prior awareness of the stimuli which he or she was exposed to. iCognative has applications not only in counter-terrorism but also in other disciplines such as law enforcement, criminal justice, trafficking and national security.

iCognative is an accurate test in which no false positives or false negatives are reported. There are no known ways to beat the test, unlike the polygraph test. The human tongue may lie, but the brain cannot.

iCognativeis a non-invasive test which accurately determines if a person is aware of a thing/event/person/name/word/concept or not. The investigative agencies can use this technology to quickly narrow down their search to find the criminals. iCognative is extremely useful even after the culprit has been identified has been caught. The extent of his or her involvement in a criminal organisation network can be found out. Moreover, iCognative can help distinguish between a witness, a planner and the person who committed the crime. The test is administered using a portable system comprising a computer and a wireless headset. The test administrators find it easy to operate the system. Brainwave Science provides seamless support to its clients.There is no trauma and torture meted out to the testee. No questions are asked during the test. Words and phrases related to the investigation can be presented to the subject in a language they are comfortable with.

There are no known countermeasures to the test. The test, being highly accurate, reports no false positives or false negatives. Investigative agencies can use iCognative to screen suspects from within the educational institution. It is obvious that the culprits had access to the building which houses professor Midlarsky’s office.

Once the culprits are arrested, iCognative can help to identify the persons who could have encouraged the culprits to draw hateful graffiti on the walls leading to the professor’s office. It will help in reverse engineering the network. Investigative agencies can use iCognative to stop the hatemongers and subsequently prevent large-scale domestic terrorist attacks.